The genre that refuses to die

Yet another zombie film. Like the real life walking-dead left, these zombies vote Democrat. They probably believe that Gore was elected in 2000, too.

The photo at The Mechanical Eye, looks more like The Mummy Votes, which would actually make more sense. The premise doesn't make a lot of sense, because 2,100 zombie votes probably wouldn't be enough to change any but the closest elections.

The blogosphere has already shredded this whole subject. And the more I think about it and the death of 10 Marines yesterday, I think this is really bad taste. It makes me wonder how really serious the left is about war being so terrible. I guess is this one makes money, Dante could make a follow-up about the hilarity at Halabja.

He seems to think this will be found clever, along the lines of "Springtime for Hitler," but there needs to be more distance for that to happen. The humor in The Producers, remember, comes at the expense of nutball Neo-Nazis. A current version would have to be about some old hippies who think that Iraq is a second Vietnam and glamourize the antiwar movement of the 1970s when returning troops were spit on and called baby-killers. I see these people my age at Anti-Bush rallies protesting Iraq, and they do think they're kind of ripe for parody.